New’s work is defined by its painter sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

Chicago World's Fair, Postcard Drawings
New York Design Charette Team A American, 20th cen. Architects: Raul DeArmas (New York), Henry Cobb (Harvard), Laurence Booth (Chicago) Students: Ben Ledbetter (Harvard), Paul Danna (Harvard), Daniel Lau (Pennsylvania), Cary Davis (Cooper Union), Jarvis Wong (Columbia)

Chicago World's Fair, New York Design Charette Team D
New York Design Charette Team D (American, 20th cen.) Denise Scott-Brown (American, born 1930) James Stewart Polshek (American, born 1930) Dirk Lohan (American, born Germany 1938) Students: Steve Moser, Roger Sherman, Dick Mohler, Jeanne Isaacson, Sheryl Kolasinski, Peter Pennoyer

Chicago World's Fair, Working Drawings
New York Design Charette Team B American, 20th cen. Architects: Thomas Beeby (Chicago), John Hejduk (Cooper Union) Students: Wesley Jones (Harvard), Shayne O'Neill (Harvard), Jean Farquhar (Pennsylvania), Elizabeth O'Donnell (Cooper Union), William Griffin (Columbia)

ABC Office Building, New York, New York, Plan
Bertrand Goldberg American, 1913-1997

Portfolio Cover, from The New York Collection for Stockholm
Various artists Printer: Styria Studio (New York, N.Y.) American, 20th cen.

Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook, New York, Perspective
Bertrand Goldberg & Associates (American, circa 1952–1997) Zbigniew Z. Ciancara (American, 20th Cent.)

A Boy in Front of the Loews 125th Street Movie Theater, from the portfolio "Harlem, U.S.A." (2005)
Dawoud Bey American, born 1953

Coney Island
Joseph Delaney (American, 1904–1991)

New York
Aaron Siskind American, 1903–1991

Jazz Bowl
Designed by Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906–2008) Cowan Pottery Studio (American, 1913–1931) Rocky River, Ohio

A Man in a Bowler Hat
Dawoud Bey American, born 1953

Dancers, New York
Roy DeCarava American, 1919–2009

A Woman Waiting in the Doorway
Dawoud Bey American, born 1953

Two Ladies at the Automat (New York City)
Diane Arbus American, 1923–1971

Sur, Long Island City, New York
Hernán Díaz Alonso American, born Argentina, 1969 Xefirotarch American, founded 2001

Chicago World's Fair Proposal, Chicago, Illinois, Aerial Perspective
University of Illinois at Chicago Design Charette Team D (American, 20th century) Ralph Johnson (American, born 1948) Frederick Phillips (Amercian, born 1946) Max Bond (American, 1935–2009) Assisted by Scott Georgeson (UWM) and Randall Mattheis (UWM)

The Street
Romare Bearden American, 1911-1988

Colophon and Table of Contents, from The New York Collection for Stockholm
typography by Triggs Color Printing Corporation

Harlem Street Scene
Jacob Lawrence American, 1917-2000

Title page and colophon, from Realities and Paradoxes
Styria Studio, Ltd. (American, 1972–1994) and Multiples, Inc. (American, 1965–1975)